The Wizard’s Tower, Banks of Lake Char
When we wake up the hippogriff has returned, with its young hatchling. They are eating the Warg Pelts we put on the spire to dry. We let them eat those pelts, and they more or less befriend us and they take over the spire.
We see the Boss on a Warg watching us from the tree line. Berdyn murders him with an arrow for breaking his promise to never return.
We enter into the elevator in the center of the tower, the only way to get to the closed off area. It is a laboratory. We find the desiccated remains of the Wizard. He had starved to death in the Laboratory because someone raised the elevator. Unclear as to who did that.
We find a bag of holding among the Wizard’s possessions. This, we realize, changes the situation of being loaded down with food for the northern expedition. We can travel lighter as the bag can contain a huge amount of items.
While we were up at the spire befriending Hippogriffs, we see the remains of a road that leads towards town. We take that road to save time, camping for the evening.